Our newsletter today leads with a statement we have published in response to a recent media report in The Times that wrongly attributed 7,000 design modifications at the Hinkley Point C site to ONR.
Since I last wrote to you at the end of July, important landmarks have been reached for some of our ongoing Generic Design Assessments, with the Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd and the Holtec International SMR designs both successfully completing the respective stages of their processes.
It's pleasing to reflect how the Holtec Step 1 was achieved within one of the quickest ever timeframes, demonstrating our ongoing work as an enabling regulator, endeavouring to be supportive of industry progress provided that safety and security requirements are evidenced.
As ever, we continue to focus on ensuring that our regulation remains effective and proportionate while continually striving to streamline our processes.
Allied to this, it is why we truly value our collaborative engagements with international counterparts and stakeholders to help realise efficiencies and reduce regulatory burden where we can.
This approach was at the heart of last week's visit by US Department of Energy representatives when joint regulatory challenges were explored.
Similarly, our regulatory approach was keenly studied by the Dutch regulator during their UK visit last month, hearing more about our oversight of the construction and regulation of new nuclear in order to take learnings back to the Netherlands.
As always, if you have any comments about ONR, any of the topics included in this newsletter, or our work in general, please get in touch via contact@onr.gov.uk.
Best wishes
Rachel Grant Director of Policy and Communications | 
